October has been fairly light in terms of travel but duty called. This time the duties as a hockey mom which involved going with my son and his team to the city of Kitchener for a hockey tournament. Originally this was supposed to be a 3 day trip but cut short by the sad reality that our team did not make it into the final day of the tournament. On a positive note, it gave me an opportunity to plan another pen + ink load out.

Apart from my must-bring Hobo and TN, I wanted to bring whatever pens and paper I could fit inside a larger case. The case I had in mind was the A5 sized Lihit Lab Teffa Bag in Bag. I was expecting to travel a lot from rink to rink and I wanted a self-contained writing tool kit that I could bring along.

Loadout (In order of appearance in line-up)

Lamy Lx Case After posting my review of the Lamy Lx I received some questions about the case so I brought it along to test.

Lihit Lab Teffa Bag in Bag Contains my “writing kit”.

Franklin-Christoph Pen Sleeve To carry a couple of “special pens" that I didn’t want knocking around in the Lihit Lab case.

Hobonichi Techo As usual, I took this along for that beautiful Tomoe River paper and for writing my mantras of the day and gratitudes.

Travellers Notebook Passport As always, this TN comes along for the trip. This time I did my usual 3 notebook set-up. I also used the Essential Leather zipper case / card holder from Baum-Kuchen. This minimalist case is perfect to carry a few cards and some cash on hand inside the TN.

Writing Instruments

Most of the pens that came along had to fit in the outside pocket of the Lihit Bag with the flap down.

Look at this! How could I leave it behind? I decided to carry this in the FC pouch and popped it into my camera bag.

Pen: Pelikan M400 Brown Tortoiseshell EF Ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Ina-Ho

It fit nicely in the Lihit case, plus, I wanted to work on the pen review for this pen.

Pen: Nakaya Decapod Twist SF Ink: Sailor Jentle Tokiwa-Matsu

I also didn’t want to part with the Nakaya so it also went into the FC pouch with the VP. As you can see, I don’t have a thing about my pens not touching.

Pen: Lamy LX (Rose Gold) EF

Ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Momji

I figured that since I'm brought the Lamy Lx case then I might as well bring the pen.

Brush: Kuretake Yumeginga (Dream Galaxy) Brush Pen

Ink: Noodler's Plains of Abraham

For working on Chinese Cacography.

Pen: Pen Addict Retro 51

For signing hockey score sheets.

Stylus: Pencil by Paper 53

For playing on my iPad.

Field Notes Ruler: In case I needed to draw straight lines…

Nanami Seven Seas Crossfield

This is 480 pages of Tomoe River paper bliss. I love the cross grid ruling on the paper. I started to use it exclusively for Pendora’s Box related things. I’ve recently started handwriting the initial drafts of the blog posts in this notebook.

Curnow Backpack Journal I've been using this Tomoe River edition notebook in the Regular Sized TN that I use for weekend journaling. I couldn't fit the TN in the Lihit case but it was no problem to take the insert out of the TN and stash it into the Lihit for the weekend.

Nockco Dot Dash Notecards

For quick notes and nightly love notes to my son.

Final Thoughts

I managed to get a good amount of writing done in between hockey games. I even took pictures for this post on the dashboard of my car! So, the load out worked out well. My only wish was that there was a strap on the Lihit case. I set it upon the rink boards and it took a few falls. Nothing was hurt in the process. A strap would have been handy for sure. Which leads me to think that the Nockco Lanier Briefcase would have been perfect…

The arrival of October brings to mind fall colours capped off with Halloween. So, my pen and ink line up for the month rich reds, oranges and brown. The one limitation was that the ink had to come stored in plastic bottles. This was because October 1 fell on Sunday but I headed up to our family cottage for the weekend on Friday. I didn't have time to ink up before leaving for our trip hence, I tried to choose ink bottles that wouldn't crack.

It's been a few months since I last posted a Currently Inked. Over this time, I've experimented with the number of pens I have inked up at any time. At one point I had as many as 12 pens inked. It got to be a bit too much to manage. Too many pens to track and maintain. Now I'm trying to keep to 6 inked pens with a complete refresh every month.

October came and went in a flash! With the Scriptus pen showthis past Sunday and yesterday being Halloween, I didn't have much time to prepare my pen + ink combos for November. Without further ado, here they are...

I’ve finally decided what to carry to the Scriptus pen show tomorrow. I wanted to bring a backpack but not a huge one so I dug up this little pack from my closet and dressed it up with some pen-related pins to show my pen pride.

October has been fairly light in terms of travel but duty called. This time the duties as a hockey mom which involved going with my son and his team to the city of Kitchener for a hockey tournament. Originally this was supposed to be a 3 day trip but cut short by the sad reality that our team did not make it into the final day of the tournament. On a positive note, it gave me an opportunity to plan another pen + ink load out.

Apart from my must-bring Hobo and TN, I wanted to bring whatever pens and paper I could fit inside a larger case. The case I had in mind was the A5 sized Lihit Lab Teffa Bag in Bag. I was expecting to travel a lot from rink to rink and I wanted a self-contained writing tool kit that I could bring along.

When I posted my October pen + ink line-up, I mentioned that there were only 8 pens rather than my preferred 9 pens as a I was holding a spot for a new pen in transit. After an eventful journey from Eastern US with a side trip to Canada Customs, the pen has finally arrived.

Last Wednesday, I posted some picturesI took on a recent hike. In fact, I went on a 1 night, 1 day get away trip to the cottage with the family. To be precise, we headed up on Friday night, September 30th. And headed back home on October 1st. I pondered a bit on what pens I should take seeing as I still had a couple of September inked pens to use up and my planned pens for October were only partially inked up. So, I did what any rational pen addict would do for a 1 day trip that starts at the last day of one month and ends on the first day of the next month: I took all pens in sight!

I’m posting my pen & ink line-up a later than originally planned. I had hoped that a new pen that shipped out at the end of September would have arrived in time to join the October line-up. I decided to go ahead and post my Currently Inked for October and do an addendum for the new pen.

One week after returning from my trip to Philly, I was off to Canada’s capital, Ottawa, for a conference. I barely unpacked but gave some thought to my pen and stationery carry for this 2 day trip. Once again, I dipped into my September pen & ink line-up for this outing. This is what I brought.